BuzzFeed releases a chatbot for the Republican National Convention

BuzzFeed has created a chatbot whose job is to keep tabs of, among other things, protests that take place away from the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
The reporter bot announced yesterday was made to supplement work by real live humans, because though the news outlet will have 19 reporters in Cleveland according to Poynter, they can’t be everywhere at once at an event that attracts tens of thousands of people.
BuzzFeed’s reporter bot starts by ask